Philipp Felsch
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology